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ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO- SEPTEMBER, 1959

TOP SECRET REPORT UNVEILED AUSTRALIAN SIGHTINGS ON UPSWING

In July, sightings of UAO in Australia showed a definite increase over past months. On the 18th, two prominent business men and two doctors from Brisbane reported seeing an object about half the size of the full moon with an

xhaust-like tail, at 6:30 p.m. while on a crocodile hunting expedition 20 miles down the Norman River from Karumba.

On the same night, natives on Prince of Wales Island, 10 miles off Cape York Peninsula, saw a huge glowing red ob­ject land on a hill. They were too terri­fied to go near the object; it gave off a reddish glow at night, but could not be seen in the daytime. It apparently stayed there for a period of over 24 hours, although the Brisbane "Courier Mail" account did not elucidate. Sight­ings have also been made at Boulia, Bowen and Darwin.

UAO Over Woomera Missile Test Range

On the 20th of July, an unidentified object was sighted over the secret Woo­mera range in South Australia. At Woomera, observers in the village as well as trained staff workers on the range reported that the object looked 1ike a bright white shuttlecock travelling

outh in the western sky. The sightings lasted nearly a minute, according to range authorities, who made the sight­ing public three days later on the 23rd of July. (We note the candidness with which officials of other countries, espe­cially Australia and New Zealand, treat the subject, as compared with the Ameri­can official attitude. Also of note is the coincidence of UAOs over three of the world's largest and most important re­search and test ranges-within a period of six weeks.-The Ed. )

The staff of APRO is interested in contacting anyone visiting or stationed at Camp Hood, Texas, on the night of the 2nd or 9th of November, 1957.

Please Notify Headquarters of Address Changes!

0LAVO T. FoNTEs, M.D.

Editor's Note: There has been a multi­

tude of theories to explain the presence

and motivations of the U AO proffered by a multitude of individuals in the past 12 years. Despite the obvious ramifications,

it is felt by this office that the incidents

described in the following article, along with the carefully formulated scientific explanations of certain physical evidence should be brought to light and be made

available to every citizen of the earth. It is not without considerable soul-searching

that this report and its conclusions are brought to the members of APRO.

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SHADOW OF THE UNKNOWN

By DR. 0LAVO T. FoNTES Part Ill: FRIENDS OR FOES?

There are such things as UAOs from other planets, and these things from space may have entities controlling them that mean to do us harm. The UAO situation has come to the point where it would be wise for mankind to start turning the eyes and thoughts toward outer space, because there is more dan­ger lurking there than on the earth itself. We must be ready.

You are not going to like this report. For one reason-it will make the exist­ence of hostile UAOs self-evident. It will prove beyond any doubt that "they" are testing weapons against harmless civilian

airplanes as well as against military fortifications and soldiers. I am aware that such things will represent a hard blow for most civilian UFOlogists in every country, but not for the military -they already know. They cannot talk. I can, and I do not think I have the right to conceal the sinister angle of the UAO problem. The incidents I am going to report are real, they really happened, so I cannot do anything except to get them published. In doing this I am assuming a calculated risk, mostly because one of them is a to -secret military case. I will take such a risk myself. The matter is too importcfnt to be considered under the perspective of my personal security.

The "contacters" are going to be dis­gusted with this report, but that is not important. Far more important should be the effect of my cases on the group who thinks that UAOs are U. S. secret weapons. Take Dr. Leon Davidson, for example: I would like to know how he will explain my cases in the light of his theory. He found a CIA "tie-up" in Adamski's case. However, I would like to know his explanation for UAO hostility against my country-a friendly nation, allied to the U. S. A. in World War II and still linked to it by military treaties. There is no explanation possible unless my evidence is rejected without consid­eration.

I will present only three incidents, all of them occurring in the second half of 1957. The first case is a report of UAO hostility against an airliner. Some kind of weapon was used-possibly a micro­

wave ioni�er-i . e. , the same device that has been tested again and again against grounded vehicles. The plane did not crash, and there was no physical evi­dence that the story was true. The second report describes what happened to an­other airliner when the same weapon was used against it. This plane did not crash either, but showed physical evi­dence that the UAO was not joking. The last report tells about a vicious attack by a saucer against two poor soldiers; two sentinels from the Itaipu Fortress. At least two weapons were used: one against the sentinels, possibly

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A COOPERATIVE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH INTO THE UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT ENIGMA

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they noticed four objects to the north­west flying in a vertical diamond pat­tern with one object above, one under­neath and one to each side. They ap­peared to be of an elongated oval shape as they approached. Over the first range of mountains near the Camp Irwin Road's first summit, the four objects abruptly changed course at almost right angles and swiftly disappeared. "They were huge," said Hamilton, "and it would take almost a city block to sit one down, judging from their appearance. They gave off a brilliant reflection and seemed to almost sparkle. As they turned, I could notice the disk shape and the under surface seemed to be a s�ries of concentric rings one of which, toward the center, was a dark circle-it was strange and gave us a "funny feeling."

Torres said the object moved at tre­mendous speeds and "sparkled like bright glass." Both men were in agreement on all major details of the sighting and were hesitant in telling their story be­cause of the "ribbing" they might get. ( It should be noted that Barstow is lo­cated a little south, but almost exactly between the Mojave Desert Anti-aircraft Firing Range on the east and Edwards Flight Test Center on the west.-The Ed.)

WOMAN SEES SAUCER,

OCCUPANTS On the 13th of July, Mrs. Frederick

Moreland, Mar borough, New Zealand, reported to police at Blenheim that she had seen a saucer-shaped craft hover near the ground a few hundred feet from her house. She told police by

telephone: "You may think I'm mad, but I saw a flying saucer about 5:40 this morning. I was walking from the house to the cowshed and when going across the paddock, I noticed a green glow in the cloud, and then all at once a round thing came down into view with two green lights pointing to the ground. I could see a light greenish glow on the ground and around the edge was what appeared to be something like two ele­vator oelts, one going one way and one the other. As it came down, it was just low enough for me to see a long cowling affair and there were two men in it, and one stood up and leaned forward and I could see as he leaned over some­thing, that he was silver colored and he shone all over. I have told my husband, but he thinks I'm drunk, and by the way, · left a smell · · e er, well that's how J describe it, and as it left it made a high-pitched whine noise. It was about 30 feet across and when I saw it, it was above my head and to one side. I did notice that there were

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some sparks flying also as it left." Un­quote.

Harold Fulton, director of Civilian Saucer Investigations of New Zealand, furnished further info:. mation, gleaned from an interview with Mrs. Moreland by an Air Force officer on that same day. The extra essential points are these: Th otating belts on the middle of the craft _gave off fiery orange-colored jets. When first spotted, Mrs. Moreland was in the center of the paddock, and when the green glow shone on her, she ran to the shelter of some trees. She said the raft had ·a "glassy cowl" over the top of it, through which she observed the men. The one in the rear stood up, ap­peared to lean forward and rest his hands on something, and appeared to be looking down between his hands. After a second or two he sat back, the machine tilted and the orange lights stopped whirling.

The men appeared to be encased in silvery shiny suits from the waist up­wards when they were sitting. Their headgear resembled divers' helmets which glittered brightly. The men seem­ed to be normal sized; one never moved at all and they did not appear to be carrying on any conversation.

Harold Fulton learned that the police vouched for Mrs. Moreland's reliability. They were unable to discover any indi­cation of fabrication and all were im­pressed.

Another sighting of an unidentified light source was made by Mr. R. A. Holdaway of Dillons Point Road, Blen­heim, some three miles east of Mrs. Moreland's location at between 4:30 and 5:00 a.m. on the same morning. Holda­way got up for a drink of water and after returning to bed he saw a bright light shining through his window. As car lights on vehicles approaching along the road frequently shine through his window, he waited for the sound of an engine, but heard none. The light, which appeared to be of a whitish orange color became brighter until it reached a high intensity and then gradually faded away without any accompanying sound.

SAND IN OUR EYES By L. J. LORENZEN

The thought has occurred that the biblical admonition concerning the fool­hardiness of building on shifting sand is a rather useless one; hardly anyone would knowingly build on sand. What is needed is a foolproof means of identi­fying solid rock.

We at one time considered it prac­tically axiomatic that the simultaneous sighting of a UAO by a group of persons was a guarantee of the physical reality . of the incident. Unfortunately, it is not that simple. This rock crumbles away when we consider the incident at Mons

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during World War I (bowman in the sky) or the famous "miracle of Fatima." History tells us that in both cases there were hundreds of eyewitnesses.

This and other sandtraps are posted for us by that wonderfully honest scien­tific pioneer in the field of psychology, C. G. Jung, in his "Flying Saucers, a Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies" ( Harcourt-Brace). For the most part he deals with the religious aspect of the situation pointing out that in the face of modern day technology, tradi­tional religious answers are no longer satisfactory . . . . "No Christian will con­test the importance of a belief like that of the mediator," he says, "nor will he deny the consequences which the loss of it entails. So powerful an idea reflects a profound psychic need which does not simply disappear when the expression of it ceases to be valid." �

It would be rather presumptuous to attempt an abbreviation of Jung's work. Those of you who are familiar with the work of this astute gentleman know that he does not waste words. We can only say that anyone who is interested in getting anything resembling a true pic­ture of the UFO problem cannot afford to overlook this book. We cannot rec­ommend it too highly.

More easily understood now is the motivation of the elder-brother-in-the­saucer worshippers who have sprung up on every hand. More comfortably com­prehended is our own apprehension over their growing legions. The aura of con­fusion becomes thinner but does not dis­appear. As Jung says, "Unfortunately, however, there are good reasons why the UFOs cannot be disposed of in this simple manner."

I would like, in this connection, to point to the Venezuelan incidents of November and December 1954 involving hairy bipeds (APRO Bulletin, January and April 1955). Did Paz, Gonzales and the young hunter scratch and bruise themselves to support wild yarns in­volving UAOs? What strange coincidence or telepathic quirk caused the details of three separate tales to correlate although none of them had had the opportunity to hear of the other? How do we account for the radiation burns of Kuhn ( APRO Bulletin, January 1958), Cohn and Small, ( APRO Bulletin November 1958)? Each of these three claimed the burns re­sulted from the proximity of a UAO. If this is not true, where did they get the burns? Must we assume that the new age faith brings with it a modern version of sympathetic stigmata? What about the two sentries of Dr. Fontes' report in this issue? Can we fairly assume that a medical scientist of national reputation would risk his career on a pipedream? No, we're afraid not. Incidents such as

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an ultrasonic beam of some sort; an­other against the fortress itself, to para­lyze its electrical system, probably the same tested against the airliners. This case was kept secret by the Brazilian Army, but I was able to get all the details from one of the witnesses-an Army officer-and also to confir his report through other military sources, in spite of the censorship.

Incident 1: On the night of August 14, 1957, a

Varig Airlines C-47-the cargo ship PP­VCC-took off from Porto Alegre Airport, Rio Grande do Sul, en route to Rio de Janeiro. At the controls was Commander Jorge Campos Araujo, a veteran pilot. His first officer was co-pilot Edgar Onofre Soares, also an experienced air­line pilot. The plane was over the state of Santa Catarina, flying at 6300 feet, when co-pilot Soares spotted the UAO.

"It was 8:55 p.m.," Commander Araujo reported to the press, "the plane had crossed over the town of J oinville just five minutes before. I was absorbed with the instruments' control panel when my attention was called by co-pilot Soares. He was pointing out to a luminous object which was flying at the left side of the airliner. I began to watch it. It was not another plane, neither an astronomi­cal body. I am absolutely sure. It was a strange craft. When I spotted it for the first time, it seemed to be placed far to the left of our aircraft. We were flying on a ten degrees course. There was no chance of any mistake. Though

A there was a thick layer of clouds below W us, at 5, 700 feet, all the sky above that

layer was Clbsolutely clear. We had a visibility of about 80 miles.

''Suddenly, in an unexpected maneuver with unbelievl!ble speed (obviously super­

A sonic), the mysterious craft was ahead W of us and then it crossed to our right

side, following a horizontal trajectory that made it pass just in front of the airliner, at the same level. After such a dangerous maneuver, the object ap­parently stopped in mid-air for a brief time, motionless. Then it abruptly went into a dive and was out of sight-lost into the cloud bank below.''

Besides the commander and co-pilot, radio-operator Rubens A. Tortilho and stewards Jose D. S. Machado and Afonso Schenini also saw the unknown object. They were called to the cockpit and came there still in time to watch the UAO. There were some passengers aboard but none of them witnessed the sighting. One of them was an Army officer-he was called by the crew to be a witness. However, when he entered the pilot's cabin together with other passengers it was too late; the UAO had already disappeared into the thick

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layer clouds 600 feet below the airliner. Incidentally, the crew was sure it couldn't be seen from any of the pas­senger's windows for it had cut off the way in front of the plane.

All members of the crew declared that the object looked like one of the so-called "flying saucers." "It was shaped like ·(a �aucer with a kind of cupola or dome on top of it,'' reported Commander Araujo. "The whole cupola glowed with an intense green light. The flattened base glowed with a less in­tense yellowish luminosity. No windows o portholes were visible on the object. As we didn't know its real size, we cannot estimate with accuracy the speed ani distance of the mysterious flying object in regards to our aircraft. Its a narent diameter, however, was about 6 feet. The speed was incredible-obvi­ously many times the speed of sound. I believe it was about six miles from us, but this was just an impression, con­cluded Commander Araujo.

Soon after the sighting Commander Araujo radioed a UAO report to Varig Airlines communications at Congonhas Airport, Sao Paulo City. Others heard about it and a few days later, someone told a Sao Paulo newspaper about the sighting. The PP-VCC's crew was then interviewed and confirmed it. Comman­der Araujo's report hit the headlines all over the country on August 20th. Despite this national publicity, the Brazilian Air Force refused to make any comment about the incident-not even to debunk it. Why?

Because they had very strong reasons to "ignore" the incident. In fact, the story as published by the press was not complete. There was something more, something not told to the press-some­thing "too hot to handle." It would be unwise to apply any kind of pressure on the crew for they might get angry and talk too much-so they were left alone.

What was it? Some time after the sighting of the

UAO the Varig airliner landed at Sao Paulo Airport. There Commander Araujo met a man who was a close friend of his, a former airliner pilot who still worked at the airport as traffic chief for another airline. This man is also a close friend of mine. He found them seated around a table, silent, and scared. He felt there was something wrong with them and asked about it. Commander Araujo reported the incident. At the end they were siJent again, the whole crew. My friend tried to break that uneasy silence with a joke.

"I see that you are shocked about your uncanny experience, all of you. Don't be so worried about it. After all it was only a saucer, not a ghost."

"It was more than you think, worse . than you think," answered Commander Araujo. His hands were trembling, be­traying deep emotion. "There is some-

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thing more, but keep it confidential. When the object reached our right side and stopped for a brief time-just at that moment-the engines of the airliner be­gan acting up, coughing and missing, and all lights inside the cabin dimmed and almost went dead. It seemed that the whole electric system of the plane was going to collapse. But a few seconds later the UAO dived abruptly into the clouds - and everything was normal again. However, we cannot forget those terrible seconds when we were suspend­ed between life and death. I tell you, I saw my plane crashed and everybody killed. It was like Hell . . . Damn it, it is not pleasant to play the sitting duck."

It is not difficult to understand why no member in the crew had courage enough to report such a thing to the press. But they did not refuse to talk about it privately so that I was able to check the story through other sources. It was confirmed.

Incident 2: This case was investigated and pub­

lished by Commander Auriphebo Simoes, a well-known UAO researcher. He per­sonally interviewed Captain de Beyssac, the chief witness, and printed his report in the Jan.-Feb. 1958 issue of "The Flying Saucer." I will quote from it:

"Jean Vincent de Beyssac is an airline captain actually working for Varig Air­lines. Formerly he was a co-pilot in Cruzeiro do Sui Airlines.

"Do you know what happened to him on the morning of November 4th, 1957?

"His flight that day started about midnight of November 3rd. He took off from Porto Alegre in Southern Brazil on a trip to Sao Paulo and Rio aboard a C-46 cargo ship. During the day a cold front had passed and the sky was starlit over Porte Alegre. About 1:20 a.m. while flying ever Ararangua, Santa Ca­tarina, at 7,000 feet, he flew over a layer of stratus. Suddenly, blinking his eyes in disbelief, he sighted an impos­sible red light to the left of his aircraft. He watched it curiously and joked with his co-pilot suggesting that they were at last seeing an authentic flying saucer. When the THING grew larger, Jean decided to turn left and investigate. Just before he pressed his rudder, the thing jumped a 45 degrees arc in the horizon and became larger.

"Jean started the pursuit. He was about midway on his left 80 degrees turn when the thing became even brighter and at once he smelled something burn­ing inside his ship.

"Yes. His ADF BURNED, HIS RIGHT GENERATOR BURNED, HIS TRANS­MITTER RECEIVER BURNED, ALL AT ONCE!

''Then the 'thing' disappeared almost suddenly-while his crew looked for fire. Scared, Jean turned on his emergency

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transmitter and told the Porto Alegre control what had happened. He went

back to Porto Alegre where he landed about an hour later. After writing a full report he went home and got soused, just to scare the scare.

"On that same day, Varig Airlines issued an internal circular forbidding pilots to tell the press about their sight­ings of UAOs. This, according to the airline bigshots, was to prevent the pub­lic getting too wise about certain things happening to some pilots . . . "

The evidence in this incident suggests that our visitors from outer space are dangerous when approached and defi­nitely hostile when pursued. Positive proof is given-physical proof-that they have means to interfere with any elec­tronic instrument and make it useless. In other words, that they have a weapon -probably a high frequency radio-electric beam-with power enough to short-circuit anything within its range; any appara­tus, or electric instrument, or motors with electrical systems. The technical aspects involved will be discussed later.

Incident 3: This is a top-secret military sighting.

It is printed here for the first time­it was never published before. It is a horror tale. Any one after reading the report will understand the reasons why it has been withheld from the public under a curtain of absolute censorship. I am breaking this official secrecy be­cause I believe it dangerous. I still believe that civilian scientists should be told. One of them may find a defense not yet discovered. Civilian scientists and technicians, working in every coun­try, might help to find new weapons and defenses before it is too late.

On November 4th, 1957, at 2:00 a.m. (just forty minutes after Incident 2 ) something sinister took place a t the Brazilian Fortress ltaipu. This fortress belongs to the Brazilian Army and was built along the coast of Sao Paulo state at Sao Vicente, near Santos. '

It was a moonless tropical night. Everything was quiet. The whole gar­rison was sleeping in peace. Two sen­tinels were on duty on top of the military fortifications. They were common sol­diers, they did not know that . saucers existed. They were performing a routine task, relaxed because there was no enemy to be feared-Then a new star suddenly burst into searing life among the others in the cloudless sky, over the Atlantic Oce::tn, near the horizon. The sentries watched the phenomenon. Their interest incn�ased when they realized it was not a star, but a luminous flying object. It was coming toward the fort­ress. They thought at first that it was an airplane but the speed was strange -too high . . . There was no need to

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alert the garrison, however. In fact, so tremendous was the object's speed that the two soldiers forgot their patrol just to observe it. It was approaching rap­idly.

In just a few seconds the UAO was flying over the fortress. Then it stopped abruptly in mid-air and drifted slowly down, its strong orange glow etching each man's shadow against the illumi­nated ground between the heavy cannon turrets. It hovered about 120 to 180 feet above the highest cannon turret and then it became motionless. The sentries were frozen on the ground, their eyes wide with surprise, the Tommy guns hung limply from their hands like dead things. The unknown object was a large craft about the size of a big Douglas, but round and shaped like a disk of some sort. It was encircled by an eerie orange glow. It had been silent when approach­ing, but now, at close range, the two sentries heard a distinct humming sound coming from it. Such a strange object hovered overhead and nothing happened for about one minute. Then came the nightmare . . .

The sentinels were startled, unable to think what to do about the UAO. But they felt no terror, no premonition, no hint of the danger. Then something hot touched their faces (one of them thinks he heard a faint whining s�und he could not identify at that same moment). In darkness this would have been horri­fying. But the UAO was bright and they could see that nothing had changed. Then came the heat. Suddenly an in­tolerable wave of heat struck the two soldiers.

One of the sentries said later that, when the heat wave engulfed him, it was like a fire burning all over his clothes. The air seemed to be filled with the UAO's humming sound. Blind panic yammered at him. He staggered, dazed, heat waves filling the air around him. It was too hot . . . He went stumbling and lurching, his whole conscious pur­pose that of escaping from that invisible fire b:urning him alive. He fought, and gasped and beat the air before him. He was suffocating. Then he blacked out and collapsed to the ground-unconscious.

The other sentry got the horrible feel­ing that his clothes were on fire. A wave of heat suddenly enveloped him. Horror filled him and he lost his mind. He began to scream desperately, running and stumbling and crying from one side to another, as a trapped �nimal. He did not know what he was doing, but some­how he skidded into shelter, beneath the heavy cannons of the fortress. His cries were so loud that he awoke the whole garrison, starting an alarm all over the place.

Inside the soldiers' living quarters everything was confusion. There was the sound of running footsteps everywhere,

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soldiers and officers trying to reach their battle stations, their eyes wide with shock. No one knew what could explain those horrible screams outside. Then just a few seconds later, the lights all over the fortress collapsed suddenly as well as the whole electric system that moved the turrets, heavy cannons and elevators. Even the ones supplied by the fortress' own generators. The intercommunica­tions system was dead too. Someone tried to switch on the emergency circuits but these were dead too. The strangest thing, however, was the behavior of the alarms in the electric clocks, which had been set to ring at 5:00 a.m.-they all started to rjng everywhere, at 2:03 a.m. �

The fortress was dead, helpless . . . W' Inside it, confusion had changed to wide­spread panic, soldiers and officers run­ning blindly from one corner to another along the dark corridors. There was fear on every face-fear of the unknown­hands nervously grasping the useless weapons. Then the lights came on again and every man ran outside to fight the unexpected enemy who surely was at­tacking the fortress. Some officers and soldiers came in time to see an orange light climbin� up vertically and then moving away through the sky at high speed. One of the sentinels was on the ground, still unconscious. The other was hiding in a dark corner, mumbling and crying, entirely out of his mind. One of the officers who came first was a military doctor and, after a brief exami­nation, he saw that both sentries were badly burned and ordered the men to take them to the infirmary immediately. They were put under medical care

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once. It became clear that one of them was a .severe cas� of heat syncope; he e was still unconsciOus and showing evi­dent signs of peripheral vascular failure. Besides this, both soldiers presented first and deep second -degree burns of more than 10 per cent of body surface­mostly on areas that had been protected e by clothes. The one that could talk was in deep nervous shock and many hours passed before he was able to tell the story.

The nightmare had lasted for three minutes . . .

Next day the commander of the fort­ress (an army colonel) issued orders forbidding the whole garrison to tell anything about the incident to anyone­not even to their relatives. Intelligence officers came and took charge, working frantically to question and silence every­one with information pertaining to the matter. Soldiers and officers were in­structed not to discuss the case. The fortress was placed in a state of martial law and a top-secret report was sent to the Q. G. (at Rio or Sao Paulo). Days later, American officers from the U. S. Army Military Mission arrived at the

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fortress together with officers from the Brazilian Air Force, to question the sen­tries and other witnesses involved. After­wards a special plane was chartered to bring the two burned sentinels to Rio. It was an Air Force military aircraft. At Rio, they were put in the Army's Central Hospital (HCE), completely iso­lated from the world behind a tight security curtain. Two months later they were still there. I don't know where they are now.

Three weeks after the incident, I was contacted by an officer from the Brazilian Army, a friend who knew about my interest in UAO research. He was at the Fortress of Itaipu the night of the incident. He was one of those who ques­tioned the two sentries. He told me the whole story exactly as it was described above. His name was suppressed from this report in order to protect him. The reasons are obvious; he told me some­thing he should not tell. As a matter of fact, this officer has asked me to forget his name and he wasn't laughing. He was too frightened.

I was aware, however, that the infor­mation was not enough despite the fact that it had come directly from one of the witnesses. The case was too impor­tant. On the other hand, to get more information through the security ring built by Army Intelligence would be an almost hopeless task. The only way was to attempt to break the secrecy around the two soldiers under treatment in the Army's Central Hospital. As a physi­cian, I might perhaps contact some doc­tors from the hospital and even examine the two patients if possible. However, all my attempts failed. The only thing I was able to determine was the fact that two soldiers from the Fortress of Itaipu were really there under treatment for bad burns. Only that.

The case remained in my files until two months ago, when the final 2roof that it was real was finally obtained. Three other officers from the Brazilian Army who had been at the fortress on the night of the UAO were fortunately localized and contacted. They told the same story. They confirmed the report transcribed above in every detail. UAO Weapons-Comments on Technica l

Aspects Involved

The evidence at hand indicates that UAOs possess means of creating, in the ignition system of internal combustion engines of cars and aircraft, secondary currents powerful enough to destroy synchronization of sparkplug action and so to stall the engines; that they can interfere at will with radio transmitters and receivers, with generators of electric current, with batteries, with telephone lines, and generally speaking, with all electric circuits ; and that these "electric

effects" are not merely side-effects of th!; _pow�rful electromagnetic fields that exist around UAOs--but the result of purposeful interference, of a weapon used as means of defense and attack. These effects are quite independent of the proximity or any movement of the UAO and somtimes (as in Incident 3 ) they appear to be provoked entirely by the behavior of the witnesses. Such a weapon is very efficacious, because the great majority of man-made machines are either electrical or depenci on an electrical ignition system. In Incidents 1 and 2 it was used against two airplanes, out produced no biological effects on the crews inside them. In other cases, how­evr�r - chiefly in France -- the witness reported that they were "electrified, " "paralyzed b y a n electric current, " or felt a "sensation of h �at." But such a heat was not enough-in any case-to produce the biological effects described in Incident 3. /Lo. J ' ,. 1 11

The evidence at hand suggests that such a weapon is not an alternating magnetic field in itself, but a high­frequency, long - range electromagnetic beam of some sort, i.e. , a radio-electric wave concentrated into a narrow, pow­erful beam. After a careful analysis of the data I came to the conclusion that this weapon might be a micro-wave ionizer-a generator of odd-shaped micro­waves that ionize the air where they strike. They would make air a high­resistance conductor, among other things. Nothing more than that. And if ioniza­tion can make air a high-resistance conductor, then an ionizing beam would make a high-resistance short between the power terminals of a battery. With the electric charge a battery carries, that short would get hot. So would the bat­tery. It would get hot enough-given enough time-to boil the solution inside it. Which has happened in some cases (in some "stalled cars"). Besides, a microwave generator with power enough would short-circuit anything within its range; any apparatus or electric instru­ment (as in incident 2, or motors with electric systems as in Incident 1); or it could momentarily paralyze every bit of electric equipment in · a plane, ship, grounded vehicle, or military fortress (as in Incident 3 ).

-r Such a microwave device might' be

used as a scanner too. In this case it might explain the so-called "spy beam" sometimes described in connection with UAOs. This appears to become visible near the focal point to radar, photogra­phy or the human eye. Jets have some­times flown through such radar "ghosts, " while others have appeared on film as discs, ovals or cones.

The "heat wave" which burned the two sentries in Incident 3 represents another problem. It was not a side-effect of the weapon which produced the "elec-

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tric effects"-these came at least one minute later, when an all-over alarm had been caused by the soldiers' shouts. Besides, the heat produced by an elec-trical device would be diffuse less in- , 1 ' tense, similar to that obtained through \1{\C �l/l� diather�y . . The witness�s would report ' .�.� also a tmglmg on the skm and a raising of hairs. As it happened, it is clear that a weapon of different kind_ was used agains e soldiers. What was it?

It is known that the temperature rise of any volume element of matter may be brought about by two different mech­anisms: ( 1) a readily accessible surface is kept elevated in temperature and as a result of conduction there is heating of deeper parts. ( 2) Heat may be de­veloped in the volume itself (in our case, a human body) by physical energy be­ing conducted through it and converted into heat. The first is exemplified by application of a heating lamp or hot packs, the second by diathermy. But in none of these cases would the heat pro-duce the feeling of burning clothes, nei­ther would the burns be worse ·on skin areas protected by clothes-as it hap­pened with the two sentries. This effect is unique and can be termed "struc­tural" heating. It can be produced only by ultrasonics. This arises from the fact that the longitudinal ultrasonic oscilla­tions are transformed into transverse waves (shear waves) at interfaces be­�ween mediums of different acoustic 1

i 1mpedence as, for example, between clothes and skin. These resulting trans­verse waves are more rapidly absorbed '

than the longitudinal ones, with subse­quent increased heat development at interface areas. This ability of ultra­sound to produce a unique thermal effect, unduplicated by any other mo­dality available, through differential heating at interfaces between different substances and differences in absorption capacity has been demonstrated and ac­cepted. An ultrasonic beam is the only thing that could produce the peculiar characteristics of the "heat wave" that struck the sentinels in Incident 3. There is no other choice.

(It is the contention of this office that the "charred roots" of the grass in the vicinity of the Desvergers incident in August 1952, should be considered within the scope of Dr. Fontes' proffered theory of the ultrasonic device. We refer the t reader to page 242 of Capt. Edward Rup­pelt's book, "The Report of the Unidenti­fied Flying Objects, " in which he de-scribes the strange charring of grass roots. The blades of the grass were not harmed, except for the tips which had been bent over and touched the ground, Ruppelt said, and also claimed that the laboratory which did the analysis of t\le ground and grass samples could dupli-cate the condition described by heating

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the clumps of dirt and grass to about 300 degrees Fahrenheit. How it was actually done outside a laboratory, the technicians couldn't even guess. How­ever, if we apply Fones' postulation, we have at least an educated guess as to how the grass roots became charred. It is certain that they were not heated in a pan in a laboratory.-The Ed.)

An ultrasonic weapon can explain the sudden "heat wave" encountered by military pilots when pursuing UAOs. For example, early in 1954 one of the test pilots of the French Fouga Aircraft Com­pany of Pau, in the Lower Pyrenees, tried to approach a UAO hovering near the town but was forced to turn away because of the intense heat that built up in his cockpit. About two months later, a USAF "Starfire" was scrambled to intercept a UAO . . . but the crew bailed out because the cockpit had be­come unbearably hot. Anyway, this ultrasonic device seems to be a short­range weaJ>on used only at close range. It might also destroy aircraft if a pow­erful ultrasonics generator is used­through the phenomenon of resonance. If the driving frequency of the beam coincides with the natural one of the vibrating body (the metallic structure of an aircraft, for instance), then a maximum motion or vibration occurs. Cases have been recorded in which such vibrations reached proportions where large structures were destroyed. In the case of an airplane, the molecular co­hesion of its metallic structure would be suddenly disrupted; instantly all metal­lic parts of the plane would disintegrate into thousands of small fragments. The plane would explode as if hit by an invisible ex�ernal force - an explosion without fire . . . The non-metallic pieces or objects wouldn't be affected by the sudden disintegration. The shredded

condtion of the plane would be the chief clue that such an ultrasonic weapon was used. Confirmatory evidence might be also found in the bodies of the crew members killed in the crash. (see head­line story, May issue of the APRO Bul­letin-the Editor)

An ultrasonic scanner, i.e., an instru­ment to meter the nature of the terrain below, might. also be used by UAOs. The constant. stream of reflections of the ultrasonic signals (microwaves or shortwaves might be used too) being sent out-channeled into proper comput­ing devices at precisely the right time for comparative analysis - might give data enough to obtain a complete pic­ture of the planet's outer crust. Such a device could explain the strange be­havior of animals and birds-chiefly dogs-when a UAO is sighted in their

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proximity. The ultrasonic vibration emit­ted from the UAO, which bypasses the ear and directly stimulates the brain, could play on that the way a musician plays on his instrument-creating emo­tional moods that would strike too deep for any untrained animal to resist. Dogs would be especially sensitive for obvious reasons.

At this point, I would like to empha­size that I can merely give you my technical interpretation of the available evidence. I cannot prove to everybody that such U AO weapons are, in fact, a microwave ionizer and an ultrasonic beam. But some of you will agree that my reasoning is sound. Others will feel that the conclusions are controversial. However, none of you can deny that the evidence included in the three inci­dents I have reported makes two things absolutely certain: (1) that UAOs pos­sess weapons of peculiar type which have been tested against planes, soldiers and a military fortress ; ( 2) that UAOs are hostile . . . at least some of them.

Joao Martins, pictured above, is the Brazilian reporter on the staff of " 0 Cruzeiro" who has consistently and suc­cessfully made UAO information avail­able to his reading public. First inter­ested in the subject in 1952, when he witnessed the photographing of the now famous "Rio" saucer by Ed Keffel, he is a close collaborator of our Brazilian Representative, Dr. Olavo T. Fontes.

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these are not easily explained away, nor are they easily believed. Human judg­ment is offended either way.

And there is yet another puzzle. Ever since the idea of space travel was first contemplated, it has been the underlying assumption of the layman that space would be traversed for purposes of con­quest and exploitation. Now that the idea of space travel shows the possibility of · becoming fact, why is this once popular assumption so readily repressed? . . .

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except in South America. Why do the Saucer-Saviour cults thrive so readily in Europe, North America and Japan-but not in South America.

I would like to point to certain facts which appear to have, at least partly, a causal relationship to the observations immediately above. ( 1 ) Of the areas mentioned, only South America was rela­tively free from involvement in recent global conflict-there also, the pressure of world politics is less severe. (2) Japan was but recently deprived of its God­Emperor without the benefit of a satis­factory substitute. (3) The U. S. has for some time been engaged in an all-out get-into-space program. In this connec­tion it is quite common to hear discus­sions of "space law," property rights of space explorers, etc. I would like to suggest that it is hardly possible for a person or a people to plan the exploi­tation of something or someone without evoking the possibility that one could be (or should be) exploited in return­that evidence for UAO hostility is re­jected and the saviour-myths embraced in order that hope for the truth of the latter may mask fear for the truth of the former. (4) With all due respect, I think we need to consider also the dominance of Roman Catholicism in South America. Due to its long-estab­lished program of early indoctrination, it is fairly safe to assume that there the position of traditional mediators has not been seriously challenged. Resultant­ly, it is to be expected that the average South American could view the evidence for hostility with less apprehension.

All this seems to lead to the not very satisfying conclusion that while a goodly a. portion of UAO activity is probably psy- WI' chic projection, there remains a core of correlated instances which cannot be fully accounted for in this manner, which indicates, rather, the stealthy advance of a reconnaisance timetable.

I repeat, what is needed is a foolproof means of identifying solid rock.

Mystery Cylinder Hovers Over Ship

Hammerfast, Norway, Sept. 1, 1959 (Reuters ) . A mysterious object which was cylindrical, approximately 10 feet in diameter and made no sound, hov­ered above the bows of the Norwegian vessel Aida near Hammergest on 31 Aug­ust. Captain Kaara Eakariassen reported the sighting to a Hammerfest radio sta­tion. The captain, who was alone on board the vessel at the time, said the object remained for five minutes before rising rapidly out of sight.